On Facebook and Twitter, she and others run the the Fallujah Birth Defects group, which posts imagery of the shocking array of problems that foetuses in the region develop in the womb.

Speaking under an alias for fear of reprisal, he points to the quiet crisis gripping Fallujah: a surge in birth defects, cancers and rare illnesses that many residents and medical professionals ...

In central Iraq, Fallujah was the scene of two destructive ... 2009-2010 (as opposed to around 2% in Egypt, for example). Birth defects were so widespread that some doctors warned parents to ...